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After 30 hours of overtime haggling, diplomats agree on a new approach to deal with climate change

Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter

Published: December 14, 2014 at 7:13 AM

LIMA, Peru -- A battle over how the world will tackle climate change dragged into more than 30 hours of overtime ending early today with a thin agreement that puts governments on a path to a new global warming accord in 2015 but does little to ensure it is ambitious enough to avoid the most dangerous impacts.

The Trump administration's bid to limit which wetlands and streams are covered by the Clean Water Act is backed by an analysis that assumes many states will boost regulations as federal oversight retreats. But state regulators and environmental experts say closing that gap will be all but impossible.

The Trump administration's bid to limit which wetlands and streams are covered by the Clean Water Act is backed by an analysis that assumes many states will boost regulations as federal oversight retreats. But state regulators and environmental experts say closing that gap will be all but impossible.